Thread 12090985

These things unironically ruined gaming forever

>>12090985 (OP)
No they didn't. They were a cheap solution to saving disc-based games. Plus before everything was internet, you could share and transfer saves with other people.

These things saved gaming forever.

>>12090985 (OP)
That's not a pic of youtube hot take

>>12090985 (OP)
The ability to take your game AND save(all in the game case) to a friends house and get back right where you left off on their system I honestly wish I saw again.

>>12090985 (OP)
Weird they got killed off on non retro consoles

>>12091054
OG Xbox with its hard drive already made memory cards redundant and still optionally used them to transfer saves between consoles. Later consoles allowed automatic data transfer over network, making memory cards completely unnecessary.

>>12091061
Not really. See >>12091048

>>12091061
I'd like an offline option on this day and age.

>>12091084
>>12091061
My favorite aspect about PS1/2 memory cards is that your game data isn't bound to the console or the game itself, and so you can easily sell hardware and software without having to worry about data loss

>>12090985 (OP)
They were memorable just for the sake of save icons alone
https://umbrella.style/ps1icons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQVlcdUKFiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chVLZ5DAVT0

>>12090985 (OP)
Gaming got ruined when this cancerous tumor came out really pushing "cinematic" experiences to the mainstream.

>>12090985 (OP)
Gaming was ruined forever the moment (You) were born

this is one of those mad lib threads where the bot has a bunch of thumbnails and a bunch of shallow cliches and it just dicerolls two together

>>12090985 (OP)
These things are better than the alternative, i.e.on-board memory which would have ruined pretty much every retro console by now.
I wish they were more compatible with other devices, though, like PSP's Memory Stick is.

>>12091150
the PS3 adapter makes them universally compatible with PCs via usb

>>12091154
really? If so then holy shit

>>12091187
>he hasn't seen the price yet
I'm sorry anon...

>>12091194
*sigh* oh well. Bet there's 3rd party ones at least with more bells and whistles to boot cause this sounds pretty convenient.

>>12091209
yeah it's expensive (~$60) but I think it's worth it just to be able to move a save between PS1/2 to PS3 consoles alone.
I haven't used it to move to PC (I use my PS3 and copy to PSP for that) but I think it needs a driver to work correctly

>>12091219
I use linux and thats got hardware support for just about anything pre-baked so its probably fine.

It was scummy to not include one with the PS2 when every game required it

>>12090985 (OP)
>made gaming experience have more soul, where you develop a personal attachment to your save files
>>ruined gaming
/v/ tourists are the worst

>>12091294
Yeah, but most people weren’t buying it for games.

>>12091309
In all fairness you could have a menu like this on modern systems and it'd be cool as shit.

>>12091314
But we don't because modern devs are lazy as shit

>>12091331
I understand hardware being more or less the same but man how don't we even have themes on ps5 beyond a 30th anniversary thing for limited time? That shit was done easily with a jailbreak.

>>12091048
You do. Its called cloud saves and every major platform supports it

>>12091048
Do SD cards not exist anymore?

>>12091350
the thing is>>12091084

It lets you load hacks onto the system. So I like it. Consoles should not even have storage.

>>12091361
>>12091369
Modern consoles aren't as liberal in terms of handing a different person/account a save file. Not saying you cant but I wouldn't exactly call it convenient.

>>12091084
everybody has internet, grandpa.

>>12090985 (OP)
A that's a ps2 memory card so it wasn't novel, but memory cards were a dead concept for consoles by the 7th gen so they're more a blip in the radar

>>12091135
yup

>>12091294
Yeah that would have been nice to include one with the console. I'm surprised more games didn't include one as a kind gesture like Animal Crossing.

>>12091630
Animal Crossing alone is going to take up all the room in that card.

>>12090985 (OP)
As opposed to your save being wiped because the battery died in the cart?

>>12091294
>>12091630
couldn't they put internal memory on it?
at least 4MB

>>12091729
Yes but then they wouldn't have gotten all the money from selling memory cards.

>>12091048
This is predicated on the false assumption that you have friends, though.

>>12091767
You do have friends tho. Ronald Palmer and his five brothers..

>>12091061
>go to save game on original xbox
>"10,000+ blocks available"
kino...

OP should have his lower colon packed to the absolute brim with memory cards.

>>12090985 (OP)
What do you mean? 3th and 4rd gen had battery save. Should that capability have been removed? Do you only like shallow arcade slop or what?

>>12091219
>>12091209
I hit a memcard pro2 recently and I've been slowly copying my memory cards over to it one by one using the ps2. Not the easiest most fun way of doing it but saving my money on a ps3 - usb adapter thingy makes it worth it for me. Plus the memcard does a lot more

>>12092339
You're as bad as OP. Acade games are only shallow slop? The absolute beauty of 3rd and 4th gen was that you could have shorter form arcade games AND really long form adventures using saves.

Hell, with memory cards, an arcade style game could save score, have lots of stages, and have unlockables.

What a pathetic piece of shit thread

>>12092398
Gauntlet Legends and Dark Legacy save on each machine, which is appealing to operators because it means the same players will keep coming back. Youngshits don't know about Gaunt Legends blue valkyrie NUD 069

>>12091426
I'd rather not have to pay sony for basic functionality

It's not there wuz a point in time when they already came with the consolemkxmp4

>>12090985 (OP)
Did you want disc consoles to have only built-in storage or what?

>>12090985 (OP)
>forever
Nigger, they barely lasted 2 gens.

>>12093194
Neo Geo used memory cards. The PC Engine also used external storage; the Backup Booster was one such option, and the Ten no Koe Bank HuCard was basically a memory card for the CD add-on. Even the Famicom got in on the act with peripherals such as the Bandai Datach Joint ROM System, and ASCII's TurboFile.

I always hated watching movies in two parts

>>12091124
oh fuck off you daft cunt

>>12091124
Nailed it.

>>12090985 (OP)
>Beat Chrono Cross
>unlock New game+ where you keep the level you were at as well as all items while starting a new game
>insert second memory card
>copy the save for a friend

>play Final Fantasy IX
>could never get Ragnarok II
>get it from someone who could by copying his save file

>play the fuck out of FF8 where thanks to the card game have most items for final weapons before even done with the first mission (Ifrit)
>share that save with friends to make their playthroughs easier

The age of memory cards was cool.

>>12091097
>so you can easily sell hardware and software
I forgot all about people selling memory cards with key game saves like Excalibur II on Ebay. Yes that was a real thing.

>>12097504
>Ragnarok II
Excalibur II. Derp.

>>12095890
>Neo Geo used memory cards. The PC Engine also used external storage; the Backup Booster was one such option, and the Ten no Koe Bank HuCard was basically a memory card for the CD add-on. Even the Famicom got in on the act with peripherals such as the Bandai Datach Joint ROM System, and ASCII's TurboFile.

There was a save cartridge for the Sega CD, even though the Sega CD does have some internal storage for saving.

>>12091084
>>12091097
>>12091369
>>12091426
Can't you just offload saves onto a USB?
That's what I did on PS3 and PS4.

>>12098626
probably
but if you want to move your save back and forth to play between an OG ps1/2 and a ps3 youll need it unless you have a jailbroken ps2

>>12099027
But if you have a memory card, you can easily have a jailbroken ps2.

>>12099424
But you would need a way to connect the memory card to your PC first, which means you probably have the adapter

>>12100464
Not at all, there are numerous ways you can use the PS2 itself to write FreeMCBoot to the card.

>>12091383
xbox 360 had it right. could just copy your profile and saves onto a usb

>>12098626
Not on a stock console, no. The USB is for PSP connectivity with certain, mostly Japanese-exclusive, games.
Hacked consoles can export and import saves to/from the USB drive, but the last model patched FMCB in the BIOS and the software exploit on the memcard must be triggered manually every boot.
PCSX2 supports this thing by the way >>12091154

>>12090985 (OP)
One of my cards got corrupted. I lost hundreds of save hours on kingdom hearts 2, final fantasy x and xii. I ended up replaying the games and having a lot of fun doing a second run. But it still felt devastating.

>>12091154
I bought this just to transfer 1 game save file to a ps3. It was a waste of $25 for me.

>>12101542
>>12098626
not /vr but ps5 doesn’t even allow save transfers without ps plus

>>12091124
Oh look, another larping zoom zoom faggot.
Go be a nigger somewhere else.